on 9/12/03 9:04 PM, Allen Watson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On or near 9/12/03 7:50 PM, Matthew Smith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > >> Now are you actually wanting to find html encoded message which contains >> this string? It won't find any as it is not actually what is displayed in >> the message. That would be like using Find in a web browser to find html >> encoding. It doesn't happen. > > Yes; if you wanted to search for a particular HTML tag in HTML messages, > you'd need to use a script to search the HTML part of the message. I'd > probably try using a script that copied the SOURCE of a message into a > window of BBEdit or Tex-Edit Plus, and then use regular expression searching > on it. That would be very slow searching through hundreds of messages, > however. It might be a bit faster to use some scripting addition that > implements regular expressions, for instance, the free "satimage" scripting > addition (comes with the free Smile editor, or separately), and simply > search within an AppleScript variable. I suggest regular expressions because > I suspect what you are looking for is the contents of an HTML tag, that is, > everything between <!- and -> or something like that. > > If all you want is to find any message containing a particular HTML string, > you could define a category in Entourage, "Matched", and simply have > something like this: > > if sourceOfMessage contains searchString then > set cat to category of theMsg > copy category "Matched" to end of cat > set category of theMsg to cat > end if > > Then, after running the script, just have a custom view that displays any > message in the "Matched" category. (Of course, you'd need to remove that > category from all messages between searches.)
Thanks, I think :-) I dropped the folder on my desktop, it made a mbox, I opened that in bbedit and grep'd It out. IN futire Entourage, I would live to se regex pattern matching, one thing Eudora has that I really like. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 http://www.newgeo.com Fax: 313.557.5052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novato, CA U.S.A. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
